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I also just checked through phpinfo.php and magic quotes is on.
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I also just checked through phpinfo.php and magic quotes is on.

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Magic Quotes is usually the problem when you find backslashes in your data base. &nbsp;Please read this article and post back with any questions. &nbsp;It explains what happened and what you can do about it.<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_6630-Magic-Quotes-a-bad-idea-from-day-one.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_6630-Magic-Quotes-a-bad-idea-from-day-one.html</a>
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Magic Quotes is usually the problem when you find backslashes in your data base.  Please read this article and post back with any questions.  It explains what happened and what you can do about it.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_6630-Magic-Quotes-a-bad-idea-from-day-one.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_6630-Magic-Quotes-a-bad-idea-from-day-one.html]

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got it taken care of
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for TecTaoMC's comment #a38710780 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27974643/How-to-keep-backslash-from-inserting-before-'-on-form-submits.html?anchorAnswerId=38710780#a38710780]

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got it taken care of

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I have a couple of forms that when when a word is written, example: &quot;he's&quot; &nbsp;the word is inserted into the mysql database as &quot;he\'s&quot;<br />
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How to keep the \ from being part of the submission?
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I have a couple of forms that when when a word is written, example: "he's"  the word is inserted into the mysql database as "he\'s"

How to keep the \ from being part of the submission?

How to keep  \ (backslash) from inserting before ' on form submits

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